CHITTAGONG: Former mayor of port city Chittagong and also ruling Awami League Chittagong city unit president ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury commented that Banglanews is taking the country forward.The veteran leader made this comment at a program marking 5th founding anniversary of news portal

COMILLA: Two people were killed as a passenger bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sadar upazila of Comilla district Saturday evening.The deceased were identified as the auto-rickshaw driver and one of its passengers.Comilla Kotwali Thana inspector Shamsuzzaman confirmed the death of the

CHITTAGONG: Banglanews24.com is the name of a successful online news portal that has crossed five years successfully.Let there add double ‘0’ by the right side of ‘5’ to make it 500 years.Assistant high commissioner of India to Bangladesh Somnath Halder expressed the good wishes

CHITTAGONG: Country’s leading online news portal Banglanews24.com has achieved the fame of imparting latest news items faster than any other media.Housing and public works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain made this comment while addressing a program organized to mark the 5th founding

DHAKA: Within four hours of attack on Suddhaswar owner Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, another publisher was chopped dead at Shahbagh in city Saturday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Foysal Arefin Dipon, owner of Jagriti Publications, who also published several books of slain blogger

DHAKA: Bangladesh government is set to sign Headquarters Agreements with the authorities of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) and the South Asian Regional Standards Organization (SARSO).The accords will be signed at UNCLOS Conference

SYLHET: Rivals shot dead two in Companyganj Upazila of Sylhet district Saturday afternoon to occupy wetland in the area.The deceased were identified as Abdul Khaleq (50) and Sheikh Farid (48).Companyganj Police Station officer-in-charge (OC, investigation) said that two groups locked into

COX’S BAZAR: A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has seized 280,000 liters of locally-made liquor in Chakaria Upazila of Cox’s Bazar district.The liquor was seized from 9:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday.Later, it was destroyed following the instruction of executive magistrate

DHAKA: Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local cautionary signal number three.According to a meteorology office bulletin, a low has formed over west central bay off Andhra Pradesh coast and adjoining areas, extending it to the

DHAKA: Amnesty International (AI) has been sold to dollars, commented Dhaka University (DU) history department teacher Mesbah Kamal.‘AI is doing business with the spirit of humanity. Government should take steps against the organization,’ he added.Professor Mesbah Kamal made this

DHAKA: A gang of miscreants chopped two writers and a publisher, leaving them critically injured in city’s Lalmatia area Saturday afternoon.The injured were identified as publishing house Suddhaswar's owner Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, poet Tareq Rahim and writer-researcher Ranadipam

MADARIPUR: Two people were killed in a road mishap on Dhaka-Khulna highway in Shibchar upazila of Madaripur district on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Zahirul Islam, 35, teacher of a madrasah, and Robi Bepari, 47, a fish trader.Panchchar highway police outpost sergeant Arif Khan

DHAKA: Chief Justice SK Sinha has reconstituted 19 single and two-judge benches of the High Court (HC) division of the Supreme Court.The order will be effective from Sunday morning.The newly constructed single benches of Justice Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan and Justice AB Mahmudul Haque have

DHAKA: Freedom Fighters at a human chain program demanded the government to expel Amnesty International (AI) from the country.Moreover, they also demanded the hanging of death row war criminals Salauddin Quader Chawdhury and Ali Ahsan Md Mujahid.Sector Commanders Forum-Liberation War

DHAKA: International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) prosecutor Barrister Turin Afroz said Amnesty International (AI) has turned into a new anti-liberation force and neo-razakar as well.AI is using the language that had earlier been used by anti-liberation elements Razakars, Al Badrs and Al Shams

BENAPOLE: Members of Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive rescued 20 people, including eleven women and two children, who were being smuggled into India through Benapole border on Friday night.However, BGB could not arrest any of traffickers as they managed to flee the spot.Identity

DHAKA: Gonajagoron Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar on Friday termed the international human rights organization Amnesty International as an anti-human organization and brought out a rally protesting its remarks on Freedom Fighter’s trial.During the rally at city’s Shahbagh

DHAKA: Country editor of Dainik Ittefaq Mir Aftab Uddin Ahmed, also a permanent member of Jatiya Press Club, breathed his last at his Moghbazar residence in city on Friday.He was 74.The veteran journalist was suffering from chronic diseases.He will be buried at Azimpur graveyard in

JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY: Three applicants of Jagannath University (JnU) ‘A’ unit were detained as they tried to enter examination halls with answer sheet in their mobile phones on Friday afternoon.Abdur Rauf, assistant proctor of the university, confirmed the matter to banglanews.He

COX’S BAZAR: Two people were killed and five others injured in a collision between bus-microbus in power house area of Cox’s Bazaar district early hours of Friday.Identity of the deceased and injured could not be known.Sadar Thana officer-in-charge (OC) Aslam Hossain told banglanews